Liz Gannes in Social on September 27, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT
Forty-five percent of Twitter’s 230 million tweets per day originate from mobile devices, according to Michael Abbott, Twitter’s VP of engineering.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT
The first version Samsung’s IM service will support Android and Bada; by year’s end it should work on all major devices.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 29, 2011 at 6:37 am PT
Following Apple and Research In Motion, Samsung says that it, too, will offer a dedicated messaging service available for Samsung device owners to easily message one another.
Ina Fried in Mobile on August 18, 2011 at 8:50 am PT
The wireless carrier is doing away with its bundled plans, forcing new customers to either pay $20 a month for unlimited texting or a hefty 20 cents per message. Current customers, however, can keep their bundled plans.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 24, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Among the more than 500 new features in the Mango release of Windows Phone are several aimed at making Microsoft smartphones into social butterflies.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm PT
Not only were people flocking to Twitter and Facebook to gab about the marriage of that prince and the English woman, but they were also sending a lot of text messages.
Mobilized has just one message, and it applies to anything happening at 2 a.m., and it is this: Do Not Disturb.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm PT
Pinger struck out with its first idea–a way to make voicemail more like email–but the team appears to have found its niche with its TextFree line of apps which offer free texting and even calling from the iPhone and Android phones. The service also works on devices such as the iPod Touch that don’t normally support calling.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 7, 2011 at 10:41 am PT
Justin.tv, the live video service, today launched an application called Socialcam to help users share video taken on their iPhone and Android devices.
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT
Yes, it’s actually called Mogwee, which was the codename for the new mobile social communications service being launched tonight by Ning, the high-profile social networking platform.
Part Twitter, part SMS, part Path and any number of such social start-ups, Mogwee actually stands for “more great weekends.”
Here is a video with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Chairman Marc Andreessen talking Mogwee.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 16, 2011 at 11:40 am PT
Aiming to capture the flavor of Barcelona, Mobilized’s Ina Fried reports back on some of the more massive booths at Mobile World Congress, including a two-story booth devoted to Android and an entire hall of wares from Sweden’s Ericsson.
